Title: The Refugee Industry/Racket Source:
vdare.com and Various URL Source:http://www.vdare.com/tag/refugee-racket Published:Nov 18, 2015 Author:Various Post Date:2015-11-18 15:02:00 by GreyLmist Keywords:Refugee, Industry, Racket Views:125 Comments:8
This topic is for archival compilations of news, laws, profiteering/racketeering, etc. info (past and present) regarding Refugee "Crisis Management" agendas (fashionably attributed to the ongoing Syria conflict and such).
European Commission president will announce plans to give €6,000 for every refugee a country accepts
The European Commission is proposing to pay EU countries €6,000 for each UN-registered refugee which they agree to resettle. The idea, announced by the European Commission on Wednesday (4 December), is part of a package designed to stop people dying on sea crossings and being exploited by human traffickers.
It is aimed at the Syria crisis. Over 2 million Syrians are registered refugees, many of them living in overcrowded camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. The EU resettled 5,000 of them last year.
It also gave some form of asylum to 90 percent of the 20,000 or so Syrians who made their own way to Europe.
By comparison, the US resettled 50,000.
EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told press: "This is the single most efficient short-term measures that member states can do to help and to avoid for these very vulnerable people to take the dangerous route over the Mediterranean."
Other measures announced Wednesday include giving the EU's joint police agency, Europol, an extra €400,000 a year to target people smugglers.
The commission is to give €30 million to Italy and €20 million to other member states to improve conditions for asylum seekers.
It also says its border control agency, Frontex, needs an additional €14 million to co-ordinate sea patrols.
Frontex told this website the money would be used to expand existing operations in Greece and Italy only.
Disembarkation dispute
There are plenty of thorny questions - for instance, who takes in migrants which are rescued by Frontex? - in EU migration talks.
The commission in April put out guidelines that say whichever EU country is hosting the Frontex operation involved should take them in.
But Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain say migrants should be taken to the nearest port.
A Maltese official told EUobserver the EU guidelines "make no sense." He noted that if a Malta-hosted Frontex boat rescued someone next to Lampedusa, an Italian island, it would take them two days to reach Malta instead of dropping them off at an Italian port.
Frontex said its boats only do patrols in their host country's maritime zone.
Humanitarian visas Another thorny question is "humanitarian visas."
EU countries generally decline to grant asylum to people who apply at their foreign consulates, a practice which leads some of them to make their own way to the EU border to file claims.
But the commission is exploring the idea of granting humanitarian visas to let people in need enter the EU legally and safely.
A commission official said member states fear creating a "pull factor," however. Malmstrom noted "there is very little enthusiasm" for the scheme.
The broad EU effort is designed to prevent disasters such as Lampedusa in October, when more than 350 people drowned.
“After Lampedusa, there were very strong words in the European Union. Still, it happened. And it is likely to happen again,” Malmstrom warned.
European Commission president will announce plans to give €6,000 for every refugee a country accepts
Jean-Claude Juncker will this week attempt to overcome hostility from eastern Europe to a programme of migrant distribution quotas by offering bounties worth thousands of euros.
In a ‘State of the Union’ address to the European Parliament – a speech modeled on that delivered annually by the US president – the European Commission president is expected to highlight compensation of €6,000 (£4,400) to be given for each refugee a country accepts.
Countries will be paid €500 in transport costs for every asylum seeker who arrives in their country that needs to be relocated to an EU neighbour within the scheme.
Mr Juncker – under fire for the EU’s response to the crisis - is expected to use the address to build political support for a mandatory scheme to relocate some 160,000 refugees from Italy, Greece and Hungary around the bloc.
It is an ambitious target: a similar plan for just 40,000 people had to be downgraded from a mandatory to a voluntary scheme earlier this year after meeting with objections from member states.
IN NUMBERS: European refugee crisis [data at the site]
The Visegrad states – the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia – on Friday said the revived proposals are “unacceptable”. Hungary and Slovakia regard the Middle Eastern migrants as a threat to their countries’ Christian identity.
Mr Juncker insisted the crisis will not force leaders to “set aside Schengen,” amid warnings the free movement zone is under pressure from the migratory flow.
“The right to free movement is an achievement of Europe and it is untouchable. We must not jeopardise Schengen, just because some member states violate European rules, and regard solidarity as fair-weather word,” he told the Bild newspaper.
Werner Faymann, the Austrian chancellor, on Sunday called for an emergency summit of EU leaders to address the crisis.
Federica Mogherini, the EU’s chief diplomat, said that the flow is “here to stay”, and said those coming to Europe are refugees who required legal protection.
That contradicts the stance of eastern European countries which claim the incomers are motivated by higher standards of living and are coming from states such as Pakistan and Mali.
“It is partially a migrant flow, but it is mainly a refugee flow, which puts us in a different situation when it comes to our legal and moral duties,” said Mrs Mogherini.
German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow thousands of migrants stranded in Hungary to enter Germany caused a split in her conservative coalition.
Leaders of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union agreed in a conference call that the decision “sent totally the wrong signal”, and that federal states that have to deal with the influx were not consulted.
EU MIGRANT CRISIS [Graphs at the site - Sweden being the country most "selected"; Austria next.]
Wikipedia References
Schengen Area: 26 European countries that have abolished passport and any other type of border control at their common borders. ... named after the Schengen Agreement.
Schengen Agreement: led to the creation of Europe's borderless Schengen Area. The treaty was signed on 14 June 1985 by five of the ten member states of the then European Economic Community near the town of Schengen in Luxembourg but was only partially implemented until 1995.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
12 Iraqi Chaldean Christians who [allegedly] fled ISIS will be deported in the following weeks.
Twelve of the 27 Iraqi Christians being detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Facility are set to be deported in coming weeks, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday.
An immigration judge ordered their removal in the last two weeks, ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack said. She declined to provide specific information about why the immigrants are being deported and where they will be taken, citing privacy issues.
Typically, unauthorized immigrants who face deportation are returned to the country where they were living before entering the United States. It’s likely that most of the Chaldeans will be deported to such countries as Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, known to provide safe haven to Iraqi refugees.
A group of 27 Iraqi Christians — also known as Chaldeans — has been detained in Otay for about six months as their immigration cases proceed, according to local activists and family members.
The Chaldeans were detained by immigration authorities after they attempted to cross the U.S. border through the San Ysidro Port of Entry without documentation several months ago.
Thousands of Chaldeans have fled Iraq in recent years, escaping persecution in the Middle East at the hands of the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS.
Lundon Attisha, spokesman for the Neighborhood Market Association, said he and other Chaldean leaders were advised by the attorneys representing the detainees not to comment on the issue.
The pending deportation of these 12 detainees comes as two Iraqi women were arrested on suspicion of fraudulently seeking asylum in the U.S., a federal crime that comes with a penalty of up to five years in custody and a $250,000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
The women, who are now in the custody of U.S. Marshals, were previously detained at the Otay facility, Mack said.
U.S. Homeland Security Investigations arrested Valentina Adil Slewa Zori on Friday, accusing her of falsifying information in an asylum application, including omission of her German citizenship.
Zori also admitted to fabricating information about threats made to her family and claims that her brother was kidnapped by a man associated with the Islamic State, the complaint said.
In an interview Aug. 3, Zori — who on occasion went by the name Valentina Adel Mroge — admitted to living in Germany since 1997, where she went to school and worked as a hairstylist.
“Zori indicated that since she was a child, she wanted to come to the U.S.,” the complaint said.
She’ll be deported to Germany.
Douglas Nelson, Zori’s immigration attorney, declined to comment.
Another complaint filed July 28 in U.S. District Court in San Diego alleges that Reta Marrogi — who at times has gone by the name of Zina Hornes Oraha Delli — falsified information in an asylum application and omitted the fact that she previously had been granted refugee asylum in Germany.
Under a question in the application asking if she or any family members had ever received legal status in another country, “the defendant answered ‘No,’ which the defendant then and there knew was false,” the complaint said.
Marrogi’s attorney could not be reached for comment.
Martin Manna, president of the Chaldean Community Foundation — a Detroit-based organization that provides support for Iraqi refugees — said applying for refugee asylum can take several years.
Immigrants must petition the United Nations for refugee status. After that, applicants must complete a standard interview, but interview dates often come with a five- to seven- year wait time, according to Manna.
Upon completion of the interview, applicants are redirected to a country that’s willing to accept them. The U.N. typically admits up to 7,500 Iraqi refugees into the United States each year, he said.
“We’re talking a few thousand a year that are coming to the U.S. But there’s more than a million that are trying to find permanent residency,” he said.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
What an unholy mess! thank you for all the information re: the war against western civilization and Christianity.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
The housewares giant has teamed up with the U.N. to build better shelters for refugees, but authorities in Beirut fear hundreds of thousands of Syrians now living as refugees in Lebanon may get too comfortable
it only made sense that Ikea’s philanthropic wing would team up with the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, to develop a similarly of-the-moment solution to the vexing problem of temporary refugee housing, which hasn’t substantially evolved beyond the tent since the Israelites fled Egypt.
More than 2 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries since the conflict started in 2011. At least half have settled in Lebanon, where Syrian refugees now make up nearly 25% of the population, taxing an already weakened state infrastructure that can barely support the educational, health and sanitation needs of local Lebanese. It is for this reason that government authorities, unlike those in Jordan and Turkey, have refused to establish refugee camps.
now the staggering numbers are taking a toll. The refugees are now scattered across the country, making it much more difficult to deliver adequate assistance. Even though the government is opening up to the idea of better shelters, it is opposed to any kind of formal camp. Still, says [Roberta] Russo [a communication officer for the UNHCR], Lebanon has been far more generous in terms of hosting Syrians than any other country,
UNHCR and the Ikea Foundation have spent three years and more than $4.6 million to develop an alternative to the traditional tent.
The houses are currently in testing, and still cost around $7,500 to produce. Once they have completed field trials in Iraq and Ethiopia — 12 were to be tested in Lebanon starting this summer, prior to the government’s refusal — they will be mass-produced, which is expected to bring the price down to around $1,000 or less. That’s still more expensive than a tent or a sheet of plastic, but it won’t have to be replaced nearly so often. UNHCR estimates that some 3.5 million refugees around the world live in tents, and on average they stay in camps for about 12 years.
says David Sanderson, a visiting professor of urban planning at Harvard University who specializes in disaster management. “The idea that you can solve the refugee problem with a new house design offers false comfort. The risk now is that we will see photographs of 50 Ikea shelters set up for the Syrians, and we think, ‘O.K., they are all fine, we can think about something else.’ ... Give refugees better conditions, and there will be less international pressure to get them back home.
The units are spacious, have solar panels, and can last an average of three years.
Refugee camps across Iraq are about to get a Swedish touch.
The United Nations’ refugee agency just ordered 10,000 shelters designed by Ikea, its largest corporate partner, set to be shipped out and built this summer. Produced by Better Shelter, a social enterprise started by the Ikea Foundation, the design marries form, function, and sustainability. One shelter can last an average of three years, compared with traditional tents, which typically last only a few months.
Each shelter is fitted with solar panels, mosquito nets, lights, and ventilation, reports news site IRIN. There are also lockable doors, a key feature, as lack of privacy at refugee camps can leave women and children vulnerable to sexual assault. Prototypes were previously tested among 40 refugee families in Iraq and Ethiopia. The structures offer extra space—they’re 57 feet square and six feet tall—allowing family members to stand upright in the space, as opposed to crouching or lying down in tents.
... inside a Better Shelter prototype, Kawergosk refugee camp, Iraq, March 2015. (Photo: Courtesy BetterShelter.org)
“The refugees have been involved in the process from the beginning,” Anders Rexare Thulin, managing director of Better Shelter, told IRIN. “We have received regular feedback from families living in the structures, and we made sure we incorporated their comments in our design.”
Assembly of Better Shelter prototype, Hilawyen Refugee camp, Dollo Ado, Ethiopia in July 2013. (Photo: R.Cox/ Courtesy BetterShelter.org)
There are more than two million refugees and internally displaced persons in Iraq, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In recent years, the agency has also worked with Ikea [partnering with the United Nations] to provide solar lamps to refugees in Ethiopia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Chad, and Jordan.
“Putting refugee families and their needs at the heart of this project is a great example of how democratic design can be used for humanitarian value,” Jonathan Spampinato, head of the Ikea Foundation’s strategic planning and communications, said in a statement. “We are incredibly proud that the Better Shelter is now available so refugee families and children can have a safer place to call home.”
a multinational group of companies that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture (such as beds, chairs and desks), appliances, small motor vehicles and home accessories. As of January 2008, it is the world's largest furniture retailer.[4] Founded in Sweden in 1943 by then-17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, who was listed as one of the world's richest people in 2013,[5] the company's name is an acronym that consists of the initials of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd (the farm where he grew up), and Agunnaryd (his hometown in Smaland, south Sweden).[6]
Headquarters: Delft,[1] Netherlands
Advertising
[Currently running a same-sex marriage themed commercial in America.] In 1994, IKEA ran a commercial in the United States widely thought to be the first to feature a homosexual couple; it aired for several weeks ... Other IKEA commercials appeal to the wider GLBTQ community, one featuring a transgender woman.[136]
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
What an unholy mess! thank you for all the information re: the war against western civilization and Christianity.
You're welcome, Lod. :) Am planning to post more topic info here eventually, including some 4um postings on that. For now, here is a recent news-article update:
Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers moved Wednesday to freeze White House plans to resettle Syrian refugees, ... Republican leaders introduced legislation requiring assurances of more robust background checks and vetting before the White House can go ahead with its plan to welcome 10,000 refugees from the conflict in the coming year.
A vote on the measure, unveiled by House Homeland Security chairman Michael McCaul, could come Thursday.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Refugees are the business of agencies such as the U.N. and the Red Cross. It's not obligatory upon the West to import masses of them or any, as Western politicos and mega-media have scammed. Most of the world doesn't admit refugees and asylum seekers
Globally, about 17 countries (Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States) regularly accept "quota refugees" from refugee camps. [i.e. The vast majority of the world's nearly 200 countries don't resettle refugee quotas.]
Immigration Law: An Overview: Congress has complete authority over immigration. Presidential power does not extend beyond refugee policy.
8 U.S. Code § 1101 - Definitions | @ Authorities (CFR)/Code of Federal Regulations tab: 8 CFR - Aliens and Nationality | Part 207: ADMISSION OF REFUGEES | Part 209: ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS OF REFUGEES AND ALIENS GRANTED ASYLUM
TITLE III—UNITED STATES COORDINATOR FOR REFUGEE AFFAIRS AND ASSISTANCE FOR EFFECTIVE RESETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES
PART A—UNITED STATES COORDINATOR FOR REFUGEE AFFAIRS SEC. 301. (a) The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a United States Coordinator for Refugee Affairs (hereinafter in this part referred to as the “Coordinator”). The Coordinator shall have the rank of Ambassador-at-Large.
(c)(1) In the conduct of the Coordinator’s duties, the Coordinator shall consult regularly with States, localities, and private nonprofit voluntary agencies concerning the sponsorship process and the intended distribution of refugees.
[Newly-elected U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI)] called for a pause in Obama's program, announced in September, to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in a year.
Obama said refugees are screened for 18 to 24 months before being cleared to enter the United States, with the intelligence community fully vetting applicants.
Senator Ben Cardin, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said Washington should look at the strongest possible vetting process to ensure "terrorists cannot get into the United States through our refugee program."
The current U.S. screening process takes 18 to 24 months and is tighter than that in Europe, he said.
Ryan did not offer details about proposed legislation to pause Obama's refugee plan, but said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that he would bring it to the House floor on Thursday.
He said he had spoken to the White House, congressional Democrats and senators about the bill.
Several other Republicans are pushing to include a provision to block the resettlement of Syrians in a trillion-dollar budget bill that must be passed, and signed into law by Obama, by Dec. 11.
Others have proposed measures setting strict conditions on admitting Syrians, such as requiring the FBI director to certify that refugees' background checks have been completed, and an audit of the vetting process.
Technically, afaik at this point, the alleged war-fleeing Syrians don't even qualify here as "Refugees" -- which are categorically persecuted persons [or fear persecution of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion], not war-displaced persons. [Ref. Refugee Act: Admission of refugees - Wikipedia]
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
There are supposed to be lengthy and thorough vettings for 18-24 months of all asylum seekers and refugees before they're admitted here [Ref. Paris attacks reshape U.S. debate on immigration, security]. They aren't supposed to be roaming around in America during that process [Ref. Former ICE Director on Refugees and Security]. RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services; formerly the Refugee Aid Project during Central America's wars and upheavals) is a Texas group of attorneys arguing [lobbying] that any length of screening detention time at all is too long, especially for those with families, and that community-based alternatives are most appropriate [Ref. Response to ICE Announcement on Release of Refugee Families]. Many who claim to be fleeing from dangers of war, etc., are likely to arrive without documentation and verifiable statements. If they are approved for admittance without proper vettings: "Once granted U.S. protection, both refugees and asylees are entitled to a social security card and employment authorization. Depending on the individual’s or household’s needs and the length of time that has passed since their arrival or asylum status was granted, they may qualify to receive assistance including cash, medical, housing, educational, and vocational services to promote economic self-sufficiency and integration into society." [Ref. Refugees and Asylees in the United States]
+ 4um Ref. with info on .gov bankrolling of the Refugee Industry/Racket reported at a libertynews.com article:
$3 BILLION of our dollars moving foreigners into the U.S. as refugees last year.
How is all of this money being spent and through what process? The answer is not easy to explain. In fact, the money flows through a vast network of organizations via the Office of Refugee Resettlement. The ORR is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
For this story we’re going to focus on Texas. ... Texas leads the nation in refugee resettlement because ... Texas has a vast network of resettlement agencies and astroturfed (Paid grassroots) refugee communities.
Texas has 26 organizations/agencies who plan on receiving Syrian refugees. We haven’t gone through each of them to see what kind of taxpayer dollars are flowing in, but we’ve pulled enough to know the sum is enormous.
I think it is a sign of Washington’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy that US citizens are being forced to pay for those fleeing Washington’s foreign policy.
For the past ten years the US government has been planning and executing a regime change operation against the Syrian government. It is this policy that has produced the chaos in Syria, including the rise of ISIS and al-Qaeda in the country. After a decade of US destabilization efforts, we are now told that Syria is totally destabilized and we therefore must take in thousands of Syrians fleeing the destabilization that Washington caused.
The American people have been forced to pay untold millions for a ten-year CIA and Pentagon program to undermine and overthrow the Syrian government, and now we are supposed to pay millions more to provide welfare for the refugees Obama created.
It’s time those who start the wars start paying for the disasters they create. Then perhaps we might have some relief from an interventionist foreign policy that is destroying our financial and national security.
Excerpts from 2 vdare.com articles; links at the sites:
the net effect of the 1980 Refugee Act has been to create a special type of expedited, subsidized immigration for politically-favored groups, regardless of any objective need. In the U.S., a veritable NGO Nation of at least 400 federal government-dependent refugee agencies and affiliates has grown up on the basis of welfare as we knew it, a gullible media, dubious accounting practices and ... providers and lobbyists for future waves of refugees. Perhaps an additional 400 smaller exclusive ethnic organizations and spin-offs are supported by state and local governments. This Refugee Industry is dedicated to bringing in more “refugees”—often brazenly presenting their case before Congress in terms of the employment it provides for Americans a.k.a. themselves.
under the terms of the 1996 welfare reform, Americans are facing the end of benefits in time-limited welfare programs as of fall 2002. Meanwhile 19% of recently arrived refugee households have one or more members receiving a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) check, along with food stamps, Medicaid and, in most cases, public housing. There`s no time limit on SSI payments and refugees can qualify within 30 days of arrival.
A contact at the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has told me that the federal office may soon stop tracking refugee welfare usage by ethnic group because it “makes certain ethnic groups look bad”.
large numbers of Russian organized crime figures have managed to pour in as refugees and immigrants for decades. Indeed, until 9/11 U.S. authorities never even bothered to verify that the refugee deplaning in New York was the same person granted “status” in the U.S. Consulate overseas.
The historic but little-reported immigration to the U.S. of some 400,000 Soviet Jewish “refugees” permitted by the “Lautenberg Amendment” has slowed, finally. Russia is simply running out of Jews who want to leave.
refugee NGOs have steadfastly refused to use their own resources to maintain the U.S. refugee resettlement “infrastructure”. Indeed, the program known as the Private Sector Initiative, allowing sponsoring NGOs to bring over refugees if they were willing to cover costs of resettlement and support, was discontinued for lack of use in the mid-1990s. Today the NGOs are even opposed to diverting federal refugee dollars to overseas refugee assistance—where such dollars will be far more effective—for fear it will mean fewer dollars for them!
The Washington Times featured Lavinia Limon, director of a non-profit refugee agency. But it neglected to mention she was formerly the director of the federal DHHS Office of Refugee Resettlement. Would any other government-dependent industry have gotten such light treatment by the media for what is obviously a revolving door between the industry and the federal government? Back when Miss Limon was head of ORR, she told me the main function of the refugee “non-profits”, known as Voluntary Agencies, was to link refugees up with public benefits programs.
Further, refugee advocates neglect to mention that successful asylum seekers, very similar to refugees, have surged.
refugee resettlement [is] a largely unfunded federal mandate imposed on [the States] by Washington.
a refugee industry has grown up here in the U.S. It forms an “Iron Triangle” ... 1) interest group; 2) Congressional Committee; 3) federal agency.
The refugee Iron Triangle is also aided by a lawyer lobby—and a media which is seemingly incapable of reporting truthfully on the issue.
The Refugee Industry as we know it would end tomorrow if even one quarter of refugee costs were the responsibility of its champions.
The largest such champion: the Roman Catholic Church. ... The second-largest refugee resettlement contractor, in terms of refugees recently resettled in the U.S.: the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
Jewish refugee immigration from the former Soviet Union [FSU] to the U.S. has fallen off dramatically in recent years. An incredible 500,000 Jews have come here since the 1980s. But now the FSU is simply running out of Jews.
So what “role” does the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society decide to play? It opens a satellite office in Nairobi Kenya—where it will most certainly be facilitating African Muslim refugee immigration to the U.S. (About 50% of today`s UNHCR refugees are from Muslim countries, not including Palestinians who are counted on the books of another UN refugee agency, UNRWA.)
This may seem paradoxical, given Jewish concerns about the growing Muslim population in the U.S. But Leonard Glickman, president and CEO of HIAS and formerly a spokesman for the U.S. Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, told the Forward`s Cattan:
"The more diverse American society is the safer [Jews] are."
A suggestion to temporarily “re-program” federal money from domestic resettlement agencies to refugee assistance programs overseas—where funds are quite literally hundreds of times more effective—was angrily denounced by those resettlement contractors at a January 2002 meeting with State Department officials.
The State Department capitulated. It kept funding at the previous year`s level—even though the contractors were dealing with less than half the refugee caseload.
Additionally, State agreed to allow the refugee contractors a more influential role in picking refugees for admission to the U.S.
The Refugee Industry has also spawned a new academic discipline, “Refugee Studies.” Some of its ideologists are demanding an international “rights-based regime,” under which individuals officially designated as refugees by the U.N. would never be confined to a camp, but automatically allowed to settle wherever they wish.
This may seem a distant dream today. But there is serious discussion about creating an international clearing house which assigns refugees more or less automatically to host countries based on a formula which weighs host country GDP, population density and other measures of stability and wealth.
The more successful the country, the larger will be its per capita refugee quota.
Guess what that means?
This is not to minimize the suffering of refugees. Nor to say the U.S. should not participate in helping find solutions.
But the U.S. is already the largest single contributor to U.N. refugee work. It pays about a quarter of the budget for the UNHCR and UNRWA.
And the U.S. could fully fund 10 UNHCRs with what it spends on resettlement of refugees in the U.S., including their ongoing welfare costs.
the U.S. should re-visit legislation capping refugee admissions. ... A legislated cap, say to 25,000 a year, would reduce the value of the quota as a political tool. It would also free up more resources for refugee assistance overseas.
U.S. foreign policy increasingly converges with the global human rights agenda—part of which has always called for a permanent high-volume flow of refugees to the West.
In the wake of 9-11, there would be considerable popular support for an admissions cap—if it were to be openly and honestly debated.
We know who would oppose any such debate—and now we know why.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Immigration Law: An Overview: Congress has complete authority over immigration. Presidential power does not extend beyond refugee policy.
8 U.S. Code § 1101 - Definitions | @ Authorities (CFR)/Code of Federal Regulations tab: 8 CFR - Aliens and Nationality | Part 207: ADMISSION OF REFUGEES | Part 209: ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS OF REFUGEES AND ALIENS GRANTED ASYLUM
Technically, afaik at this point, the alleged war-fleeing Syrians don't even qualify here as "Refugees" -- which are categorically persecuted persons [or fear persecution of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion], not war-displaced persons. [Ref. Refugee Act: Admission of refugees - Wikipedia]